ABSTRACT

Ya. B. Zeldovich was certainly one of the greatest physicists and cosmologists of the 20th century. This volume presents reminiscences of this exemplary academician, providing biographical and historical insights from colleagues who knew him best. Zeldovich's achievements are outlined, including those in relativistic astrophysics and cosmology, the

chapter |3 pages

How Zeldovich was ‘discovered’

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A Passport to Science

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‘Talent welled up in him’

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‘Don’t forget to write about me’

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Part II The Move to Moscow: Chemical Physics

chapter 45|16 pages

Years

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Enchanted with the World

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Part III The Atomic Project

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The Happiest Years of My Life

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It Was Like Magic

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From the Eulogy of A.D.Sakharov32

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A Knight of Science

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A Born Leader

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A Man of Universal Interests

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Thus He Remains Forever in My Memory

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‘For Me, They Were Happy Years’67

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Part IV Elementary Particles and Nuclear Physics

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Blessed with Childhood

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Years of Contact

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A Flair for Theory

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Part V Mechanics and Mathematics

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Encounters115

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YaB and Mathematics

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The ‘Humanizing’ of Mathematics

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Part VI Astrophysics and Cosmology

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As I Remember Him…

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The Beginning of Work in Astrophysics

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Years and More

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When We Were Young

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Zeldovich’s Magnetism

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The Teacher

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How One Book on Cosmology Was Born

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On First-name Terms with Physics

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Zeldovich and Modern Cosmology159

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Encounters with Zeldovich160

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A Man of Unlimited Energy

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At the Source of Graviphysics166

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The Eye of the Universe168

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Part VII From the Popular Science Legacy

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In Memory of a Friend172

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Autobiographical Afterword174